Introduction
to License Plate Recognition

License Plate
Recognition or LPR is a technology solution that takes photographs of license
plates and converts these images to text.

While the idea may seem simple, the behind the
scenes complexity that goes on is quite amazing.

License plate Recognition
(LPR) is useful in the following
purposes:

Help police scan
and identify thousands of plates an hour just by driving

Allow
border crossing to determine if a car is suspicious

Parking
garages can automatically open just by recognizing the tenant’s plates.

Parking
Service companies can better manage their parking systems

Imagine
a sad scenario that happens all too often. A child is kidnapped and witnesses
have a brief description and a partial license plate of the kidnapper.

The
kidnapper unknowingly is trying to get away, and as he drives onto the freeway
a camera monitoring the road snaps a picture of his car and the plate. It then
converts the picture of the License Plate into numbers and letters. Within a matter
of milliseconds, this license plate is checked against a criminal database (such
as AMBER ALERTS in the USA).

In milliseconds, the
police are electronically updated with the last known location.

License plate Recognition (LPR) technology is a powerful that
can rapidly help solve problems.